Bertie Wooster Sees It Through (A Jeeves and Bertie Novel) [Paperback]

P. G. Wodehouse (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2000

A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring novelist Florence Craye, a pearl necklace, and The Mystery of the Pink Crayfish.

Bertie is in a genuine fix. Not only does Jeeves disapprove most strongly of Bertie's new mustache, but also, and more disturbingly, "Stilton" Cheesewright is in a jealous rage and threatens to tear him limb from limb. In Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, more than ever, Bertie needs the wisdom of the peerless Jeeves to extricate him from this perilous situation. Will Jeeves rally to the cause and rescue his employer once again?

Editorial Reviews

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Christopher Buckley author of Little Green Men It is impossible to be unhappy while reading the adventures of Jeeves and Wooster. And I've tried.

Kurt Andersen author of Turn of the Century Wodehouse can be extremely funny, of course, and Bertie and Jeeves are echt-Englishmen, but the surprising and surpassing pleasure of these books is their cheerful humanity. Reading Wodehouse always makes me feel good.

David Foster Wallace author of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Timelessly funny and mean.

Evelyn Waugh Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

From the Publisher

"It is impossible to be unhappy while reading the adventures of Jeeves and Wooster. And I've tried."--Christopher Buckley, author of "Little Green Men"

"Wodehouse can be extremely funny, of course, and Bertie and Jeeves are echt-Englishmen, but the surprising and surpassing pleasure of these books is their cheerful humanity. Reading Wodehouse always makes me feel good."—Kurt Andersen, author of "Turn of the Century"

"Timelessly funny and mean."—David Foster Wallace, author of "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men"

"Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in."—Evelyn Waugh

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone; 1st Scribner Paperback edition (November 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743203615
• ISBN-13: 978-0743203616
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #505,755 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jeeves & Bertie #9, September 12, 2002

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phantomfan (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bertie Wooster Sees It Through (A Jeeves and Bertie Novel) (Paperback)

Previous: The Mating Season

Bertie Wooster Sees It Through surprised me a great deal. I had read almost all of the Jeeves books by the time I got to this one, and I had no idea that I could still be so utterly and completely charmed by Wodehouse's words. Of all the Jeeves books, this one is probably the funniest, with the most laugh-out-louds-the knee slapping, snorting, tears-streaming-down-your-face, scaring-the-cat-out-of-the-room kind. I can't praise it highly enough. First, the setting is a breath of fresh air. After visiting such horrific places as Steeple Bumpleigh and Deverill Hall, going back to Brinkley feels like going home, complete with Aunt Dahlia and all her warm endearments ("Bertie, you revolting object."). One delightful twist after another brings Bertie to the brink of disaster and back again, as he is faced with the prospect of having his spine broken in three, four, or five places by the oaf Stilton Cheesewright and, worse yet, marriage to Florence Craye. Couple that with Bertie's new mustache, Aunt Dahlia's pearl necklace, a somber chap by the name of Percy Gorringe, and the Drones darts tournament, and you have the funniest thing ever written in the English language.

And that, by the way, is what makes Wodehouse so wonderful-it is not the characters, nor the stories, nor the settings, but the language he uses, and the way he forms sentences, and the vocabulary which is an eclectic mix of colloquialisms, literary references, foreign phrases, and Woosterisms. Until I read Wodehouse, I had never dreamed that the English language could be rendered so beautifully, and so, so, so brilliantly funny. It is like nothing else I have ever read.

Next: How Right You Are, Jeeves (Jeeves in the Offing)

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars When You Need a Good Laugh..., September 28, 2001

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KS (US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bertie Wooster Sees It Through (A Jeeves and Bertie Novel) (Paperback)

...and heavens don't we all these days?

This is utterly charming, one of the two or three best in the Jeeves and Bertie series (surpassed only by "Joy in the Morning" AKA "Jeeves in the Morning"). The plot is very cleverly constructed with a few nice surprises, so I shan't give it away; suffice it to say that this is the one where Bertie sports a moustace.

Now simply click on the "Add to My Cart", you silly old thing.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book badly scanned, March 1, 2009

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Stephen B. Waters "sbw" (Rome, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Girl on the Boat (1921) (Kindle Edition)

To be sure, this is one of Wodehouse's best, one that can't be beat on CD. But the Kindle version has apparently been optically scanned and posted uncorrected, so sometimes "don't" appears as "dont", "fiver" as "liver", and "for me" as "forme".

It's tolerable, but Kindle reading should be unfettered joy, not joy with hiccups. Me? I'm looking for another version of this joyful read.